(For some reason, an early scene includes footage of an actual surgical procedure, which serves no real purpose but to highlight the general
phoniness of horror - movie representations of blades cutting skin.)
The problem was that the realness of his love for his immediate family highlighted his cynicism and
phoniness on everything else.
Skins is so determined to relate to hardened kids — without sermon, theme or context — that it accidentally discovers a new frontier
in phoniness and filth.
If we point people to churches that have a proper understanding (of God and the human) and focus on Christ and what He has done instead of us and what «we do»... then you can have a church with a proper anthropology and you can have honesty and
less phoniness and control.
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similar phoniness ruins the otherwise inventive poem «Green, Green Is My Sister's House» in the same 2012 collection.
Some amount of people using this, & related phrases (such as «have a blessed day») are guilty of
social phoniness.
Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson said he didn't respect his Democratic opponent, former Sen. Russ Feingold, because «I don't
respect phoniness.»
There's a
certain phoniness to some of the views of the wire, the sky and the ground — that CGI again — but there's no denying the toe - tingling, sweaty - palmed effect that is created as we watch Petit put first one foot, and then his whole body, out into the void.
The actors bring emotional authenticity to the aftermath of trauma, but despite that and the handsome cinematography, there is also a
persistent phoniness.
Led by ferociously funny robotic turns by Farrell, Kidman, and Keoghan, it's also a scathing send - up of civil niceties, with each flat, blunt statement about everyday things coming across as the height of
absurd phoniness.
Here's another film that may end up being too «weird» for the Academy's tastes, but despite his open disdain for
awards phoniness, Joaquin Phoneix has been nominated thrice before.
But John Krasinski's movie adaptation is an excuse to enlist his friends and have them use tricks, tics, gestures, and mannerisms to the point where the performances jump beyond naturalism into a kind of
phoniness best described as «actor - y.»
This is a leap forward for Cooper, whose last movie was 2013's Out of the Furnace, a testosterone - soaked tour de force of working -
class phoniness.
To quote Doc, something here is ungroovywhich isreally saying something like the Velvelettes, because the «here» of Inherent Vice is a smog - filled, corruption - riddled, slightly zombified cityscape of disillusionment, fleetingfriendships, cynicism, creeping executive - branch fascism, and out - in - the - openvigilante fascism, a place that stands as not just a monument to
phoniness buta lurid advertisement for the false.
But, as the recent elections have proven,
phoniness goes a long way in this society.
Second to racism, is
phoniness.
The battle against Babylon becomes a battle against «crews,» or street tribes; against real and fake — We real and we've outlasted /
Your phoniness, so you best to come correct; and against weak and strong — Overpower the strong tower / Infiltrate top ranks / Count down the final hour.
She's started a movement protesting
this phoniness and encouraging girls and women to be real, to be themselves, and to not allow the world to dictate how they should look, what products to use, or how to feel about themselves.
In a «sport» where everyone was playing a character, the managers embraced the absurdity and
the phoniness.
Jesus can see right through
that phoniness.
Perhaps it is that
phoniness that is driving young people away.
Coffin could spot authenticity (and
phoniness) whatever vestment it wore, and he was eager to work with anyone who shared his burning vision of a — at least somewhat — better world.
I wrote then that I appreciated Bubba's honesty and ditching
the phoniness, a label often lobbed his way.
«Kids can smell the stench of
phoniness a mile away.»
Our biggest gripe with Bubba is that
phoniness and image his sponsors, other corporate partners, and some unsuspecting souls in the media propagate.
Are you good with the quality of
phoniness?
Phoniness was not compelling.
What Allied increasingly offers is insincere sincerity: As the emotional quotient rises, so does
the phoniness.
It's a totally convincing piece of work and even when things start to get a little nuts it feels believable, thanks to the writing with is stunningly free of
phoniness or convention and the acting, which is so easygoing and natural that you can't help but identify with all the characters by the time the credits roll, and maybe yearn to spend another all - nighter with them.
It has a good heart and a good cast... But the movie is strenuously, exhaustingly unfunny, in a way that makes
its phoniness harder to bear.
A few moments of sly inspiration are not enough to carry an entire feature; along with the tears, it leaves behind an aftertaste of
phoniness.
ntricate montage and subtle colours, accommodated by a peculiar score, in the opening credit sequence, emphasise the tone for the entire movie:
phoniness.
It drives home
the phoniness and effeminacy of the Capitol's inhabitants.
Intricate montage and subtle colours, accommodated by a peculiar score, in the opening credit sequence, emphasise the tone for the entire movie:
phoniness.
And that's how the film avoids
the phoniness — that nurse aside — which often plagues Real Life Tragedy movies.
It's more conventional than it seems at first, opening with swipes at
the phoniness of birth - to - death musician biopics — via a black - and - white film - within - the - film — before indulging in some phoniness of its own.
The film's depiction of it, despite
some phoniness, rings true.